December 14 (SeeNews) - Romania's foreign debt rose to 94.301 billion euro ($111.5 billion) at the end of October from 92.91 billion euro at the end of 2016, the central bank, BNR, said on Thursday.
The end-October figure includes 69.55 billion euro in long-term foreign debt, down 0.1% compared to the end of 2016, BNR said in a balance of payments report for October, citing provisional data.
Short-term external debt at end-October amounted to 23.742 billion euro, or 26.2% of total external debt, up 6.3% against end-2016.
Long-term external debt service ratio fell to 22% at the end of October from 30% at end-2016.
The ratio of BNR’s foreign exchange reserves to short-term external debt by remaining maturity was 88.5% at end-October against 90.5% at end-2016.
The cover of imports of goods and services decreased to 5.6 months at end-October from 6.3 months at end-2016.
Details follow (in billions of euro):
|
end-Sept 2017 |
end-2016 |
Total external debt |
94.301 |
92.910 |
- long-term external debt |
69.559 |
69.645 |
- short-term external debt |
23.742 |
23.265 |
source: BNR
($=0.8457 euro)